Nevertheless, this may be a red herring and totally unrelated to Devuan, wicd, or network-manager: Our VPN provider made some recent changes right around the time I switched to Devuan. I have updated the VPN configuration in our routers.
Sorry for the noise.
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Seems on average most suggest checking router to be on WPA2 encryption and some suggest kernel parameter nohwcrypt=1
]]>I thought wicd was the culprit, so I purged it and installed network-manager. Things seem better now, but I'm still experiencing an occasional dropped connection (1-3 times a day).
I'm perplexed because when I ran Debian 8 on this same laptop I never experienced a dropped wifi connection. Maybe I'm experiencing a subtle issue that is Devuan-specific?
My laptop is a T400 with an Atheros AR9285 wireless network adapter. I'm running the default kernel (3.16.43-2).
Is anyone else experiencing occasional, seemingly random dropped wifi connections? Any advice on how to solve this or begin troubleshooting? I'm a bash pro but networking and hardware are my weakest areas.
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